The Mars Volta – Octahedron (New Vinyl) (Limited Edition) (Red & Curacao Vinyl)

NEW DOUBLE LP

New sealed copy. 2022 limited edition remastered reissue. LP1 on transparent red coloured vinyl and LP2 on transparent curacao coloured vinyl. Gatefold jacket. 

Octahedron is the fifth full-length studio album by American progressive rock band the Mars Volta, released on June 23, 2009. The album was released by Warner Bros. Records in North America and Mercury Records worldwide. It is the last studio album to feature drummer Thomas Pridgen and guitarist John Frusciante, and the first not to feature contributions from keyboardist Isaiah "Ikey" Owens and multi-instrumentalist Adrián Terrazas-González.

Regarding the release, vocalist Cedric Bixler-Zavala states that the band "wanted to make the opposite of all the records we've done. All along we've threatened people that we'd make a pop record, and now we have."

It debuted at number 12 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with sales of 29,980 in its first week of release. As of March 2012, it has sold 84,000 copies in United States.

TRACKLIST:

A1 Since We’ve Been Wrong 
A2 Teflon 
B1 Halo Of Nembutals 
B2 With Twilight As My Guide 
C1 Cotopaxi 
C2 Desperate Graves 
D1 Copernicus 
D2 Luciforms